HW questions make up just 6% of the total questions on the site. Seeing that reverse engineering hardware is in scope and in many cases, has overlapping problems with software reverse engineering, I think having more hardware questions on the site will make RE.SE an even better resource. However, this also means that we need more hardware professionals to get involved in the community.

How should we go about this? How do we get more hardware professionals involved?

Update: March 2014

Currently, just 4.5% of the questions are hardware. Lets try to get the number up!

You should edit your question to make it less broad. I said it was trivial in the sense that you should just be looking this up in a datasheet. If you don't believe that is the case edit your question to explain why. In fact you probably should split that question into at least 3 different questions however if you don't give a target device you are likely to recieve equally vague and generic answers. Which will have little value for someone else.
– cb88Jul 1 '13 at 16:06

So it got upvotes and no comments that it's a bad question. What could possibly be the message here? The fact that no one answered could have to do with no one else having done it on MIPS or with no one using your particular probe. In short, it could be too specific for the people currently in the community.
– 0xC0000022L♦Jul 18 '13 at 14:03

As mentioned by @0xC0000022L, the reason for this is because we may be missing the necessary expertise. Some promotion activities are on, have a look at site-promotion. Go ahead and share RE.SE wherever you get the chance!
– asheeshrJul 19 '13 at 15:30